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Low oil and high anxiety: Predicting the impacts of dynamic and often volatile oil prices.

The recent plunge in oil prices represents the start of a new deflationary cycle for the global crude oil business, with profound effects on industries such as automotive, chemical and shipping not to mention the consequences for global and regional economies as well as for the energy sector as a whole. Much anxiety has emerged as The Great Deflation has taken hold.

Oil prices and the economics of Russia

The Ukraine crisis and now low oil prices are driving Russia further down the road toward state-controlled economic policies, nationalist politics, and the restriction of social freedoms.

Costs factor into chemical capital investment

Crude oil is both a basic raw material in the chemical value chain and also a primary input into very energy-intensive refinement processes. Shifts in oil pricing greatly influence chemical investments in capacity, where capacity will be added and overall capacity utilization rates.

How the new oil shock is different

There have been large changes in oil pricing before, the difference with the current situation is the exceptional supply growth that has overwhelmed demand. US production growth could come to a halt in 2015.

Dan Yergin, IHS Vice Chairman

Maritime and the low oil market

The reduction in crude oil pricing has helped the shipping industry reverse the negative drag of low freight rates and overcapacity. Waterborne storage of oil as a market-balancing measure may also provide positive trade winds for the tanker market.

The up and down of automotive demand

Oil importing countries are gaining economic benefits like lower gasoline prices which translates into more demand for cars. Negative economic impacts on oil exporting countries will tend to lower demand. Ultimately, lower oil prices are forecast to drive a two percent increase in overall global auto demand in the next four to five years.

Lower oil prices can change everything and gaining clarity is essential for success.

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